If I understood you correctly, they blocked some, not all, in which case they’re still exporting material subject to export controls (i.e. military equipment) to Israel.

Have they stopped exporting weapons to Israel?

I seriously suspect they’re a psyops to help dissipate people’s righteous anger - people are pissed of a something, sign a meaningless petition on something like change.org, get their “I’ve done something” psychological kick and, having satisfied their need to do something, don’t actually go ahead and do anything effective.

Defusing the anger against injustices of the very people who tend to be more aware of what’s going on and more concerned about it, before it turns into action or even causes civil society movements to rise from the bottom up, is a pretty useful mechanism for established powers in those countries which peddle the illusion of freedom to their citizenry.

Look up the psychology of using “but” - in that sentence structure you were justifying the former with the latter, hence why felt the need to emphasized that those two things are separate and one does not justify the other.

As for cyclists being or not reckless lawbreakers, my experience of almost 2 decades in 3 different countries and about 5 cities is that most are not. However there are a few cunts out there spreading a bad impression on the general population about the rest of us by being reckless, so I am totally in favor that those cunts get cracked-down on hard, even if they’re not as dangerous as equally reckless drivers because they’re not riding anywhere near the same weight of metal at anywhere near the same speed - simple Physics dictates that a reckless cyclist is much less likely to kill somebody than a reckless driver.

Besides, cyclists who couldn’t care less about endangering others behave exactly the same behind the wheel of a car and at least in the West most cyclists are also drivers (and we’re all pedestrians too) so in general, that kind of person needs to be convinced to behave differently.

This isn’t the fucking “thin blue line” and frankly any moron supporting those cunts just because “we’re all cyclists” needs to sit down and have a really hard think about what they’re actually achieving with it.

There is no justification for putting others in danger but then. It has to actually be applied to all otherwise it feels arbitrary.

Fixed it for ya.

There is no justification to put others in danger, period. That applies as much to drivers as to cyclists.

The unjust and an uneven application of the Law is an unrelated affair.

I’ve cycled in places like London, back when few people did it and the cycling infrastructure was basically non-existent and what little there was, were mostly tiny lanes painted blue on the side of the road with no actual safety from the cars and which tended to have cars parked on top.

People still didn’t cycle on the sidewalk there back then, even in places without cycling lanes.

The sidewalk is not a place for cyclists: it’s filled with people who don’t expect cyclists and fragile and highly unpredictable pedestrians like children and dogs.

I’ve regularly commuted by bicycle for almost 2 decade in 3 different countries.

I’m sorry but if you’re cycling (or using an e-bike) on the sidewalk you deserved to get punished for it. Same if you cross a red-light when pedestrians are crossing. (I’m so so about crossing a red-light when there are no traffic or pedestrians crossing: I won’t do it myself but if you’re not endangering others it’s no big deal in my book if other cyclists do it).

Lack of infrastructure as cited by cyclists in the article is no excuse to put pedestrians at risk for the convenience of the cyclist.

Time for Europe to get its own payment processor and stop being dependent on companies from Gilead.

It’s a XXI century Holocaust.

This was expectable ever since Israeli leader started openly making statements about Palestinians when were extreme similar to what the Nazis said about the Jews and the Roma, for example calling them “human animals” and “vermin” and talking about having a “Final plan” for Gaza.

The Zionists are the present day version of the Nazis, and they’re well on track to doing the same thing, this time around with the help of pro-Nazi governments in the West, especially the US, UK and Germany.